Collaboration Across Digital Industries competition

The TSB fund will be in the
form of a competition launched to promote lasting alliances between
technology companies and entrepreneurs. To qualify for both streams, projects must be truly collaborative, with at least one partner.

Partners can be drawn from businesses large or small, academia, research and technology organisations, not for profit organisations, but the projects must be led by revenue earning business entity.

We spoke to the TSB's Lead Technologist, Alex Stanhope on the background to the fund and details on the patnerships, projects and match-funding requirements.

Competition Info Flyer

The six Partnering for Innovation events
took place around the UK, in Newcastle, Manchester, Glasgow, Bristol and London. Presentations, pictures, videos and other useful links from the events are listed below.

Technology Strategy Board Presentations

Alex Stanhope (@alex_stanhope), Lead Technologist, Technology Strategy Board outlining the background to the competition, the scope and details of the criteria for applications.

Keynote Presentations

Roland Harwood (@rolandharwood), Co-founder of 100% Open and former Director of Open Innovation at NESTA shares seven important lessons in collaboration.

Bill Thompson (@billt), Internet veteran, presenter of BBC World's Digital Planet and all-round digital sage joined the Partnering for Innovation event in London to share his thoughts on the dynamics and opportunities available in the digital industry.

Case Study Presentations

Case study from Ewan Lamont of Monumental Games, who discussed how the TSB grant-funding enabled ground-breaking development of massively multi-player online gaming engines and a great list of do's and don'ts of applying for collaborative TSB competitions.

Lynette Morrison (Tailored for You) and Tom Dowding (Mobile Pie) shared their tips on how to write an effective competition entry, how to work with the TSB and an insight into how their projects developed.

Finding Partners (Ideas Marketplace)

Successful applications require entries from consortiums of two or more partners. To help this process it's possible to connect with any delegates who attended the Partnering for Innovation events through the Creative Industries KTN Beacons social network.

At several of the Partnering for Innovation events, lunchtime sessions included an Ideas Marketplace, for companies looking to connect with partners using the trusty, low-tech method of flipcharts! Pictures of all the ideas have been posted on the Beacons social network and you can browse them on Flickr, too.